The World Anti-Doping Agency says armed Russian government agents intimidated its officers and threatened them with expulsion as they tried to carry out drug tests on athletes. The report comes just two days before a decision will be made on whether Russian athletes can compete in Rio
The World Health Organisation has reversed its previous warning that coffee could cause cancer saying there is no conclusive evidence of a carcinogenic effect. However, other scientific evidence presented by the organisation suggests drinking anything very hot - above about 65 degrees Celsius - probably does cause cancer of the oesophagus
A 2,000-year-old ball of butter has been unearthed from a peat bog by a turf cutter in Ireland. It weighs 10 kilograms, smells like cheese and is "theoretically" still edible. The bog butter may have been an offering to the gods and has been given to the National Museum for preservation
Here's what's coming up:
10:30am AEST: Andrew William Lee is expected to make a bail application in the Victorian Supreme Court. He's accused of the one-punch murder of teen footballer Patrick Cronin at a Diamond Creek bar in April
12:00pm AEST: Christopher Pyne and Penny Wong will front the Committee for Economic Development of Australia's election debate in Adelaide
12:30pm AEST: Marise Payne and Stephen Conroy will take part in the National Defence Club federal election defence debate in Canberra:
5:00pm AEST: The Victorian Premier will attend a vigil at Melbourne's Federation Square to show solidarity with the victims of the Orlando shooting
5:30pm AEST: Greens leader Richard Di Natale will be interviewed on triple j's Hack program
A dive team has recovered the body of a two-year-old boy who was dragged into a man-made lagoon at Walt Disney World in Florida by an alligator, authorities say.
US investigators question the wife of the gunman behind the massacre at an Orlando gay nightclub, with law enforcement source says she could face criminal charges.
A sobbing Oscar Pistorius shuffles without his prosthetic legs through court to demonstrate how vulnerable he is without his artificial limbs in an attempt to avoid a long jail sentence for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Labor calls on Greens leader Richard Di Natale to release documents proving he paid staff employed to care for his children were paid the correct wage.
Federal Liberals director Tony Nutt says the party will "fully assist" any regulatory body wanting to investigate payments made to software company Parakeelia. Follow live.
Australian businessman Matthew Ng, who was facing 11-and-a-half years in jail, is released from Silverwater prison 18 months after he was transferred from China to Australia in the first prisoner transfer deal of its kind.
Momentum is building in a campaign to protect the wreck of HMAS Perth that went down during World War II, as scavengers pilfer parts of the sunken Australian ship.
There is no conclusive evidence that drinking coffee causes cancer, the World Health Organisation's cancer agency says in a reversal of its previous warning, but it also says all "very hot" drinks are probably carcinogenic.
A team of international scientists made the discovery, leading them to believe there will be a flood of gravitational wave signals in the coming years.
A "still edible" ball of butter estimated to be 2,000 years old is unearthed from a peat bog in Ireland, with history experts saying it could have been part of a religious offering.
Egypt permits a rare opening of its Rafah border crossing with Gaza to give Palestinians in the occupied territory a chance to reunite with family and in some cases access urgent medical treatment not available to them.
NASA's Curiosity Rover beams back "selfies" from Mars, showing off the latest state of the red planet before it makes its greatest trek yet up Mount Sharp.
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